lear
Something learned; a lesson.
Noun Scotland, countable
- Something learned; a lesson.
- Learning, lore; doctrine.
- when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...]. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […],...
- 'Foul befa' him and his lear too! It maun be o' some new-fangled kind, I think. Our auld minister had lear enough, baith Hebrew and Latin, and he believed in witches and warlocks, honest man, like ony ither sober, godly...
- They dressed up in maids' array, And passd for sisters fair; With ae consent gaed ower the sea, For to seek after lear. - 1898, Francis James Child, editor, Lord William, or Lord Lundy, Child's Ballads:
Origin
From Middle English laire, leire, lere, northern Middle English variants of lore, loare (“doctrine, teaching, lore”), from Old English lār (“lore”). More at lore.
Forms
Noun alt of, alternative
- Alternative form of lehr.
Origin
See lehr.
Forms
Verb Scotland, archaic
- To teach.
- To learn.
Origin
From Middle English learen, leren (“to learn", also "to teach”).
Forms
Related
Verb Internet, alt of
- Deliberate misspelling of learn
- Better start learing - 2025 December 30, u/Mehoyer, “YTD. Little bit worried if I can sustain this in the future...”, in r/Salary (Reddit post), archived from the original on 31 May 2026:
- My favorite thing about the "No Kings" protests is that I can make fun of them with the same memes I used for the last protest because these people never lear or change at all. - 2026 March 28, @TheDamaniFelder, X...
- "I see no good reason why we should attack Iran," says a bunch of people that leared geopolitics from Netflix, a former pizza delivery driver, or a Vogue intern that can't pronounce the word bureau. - 2026 March 30,...
Origin
A reference to the "Quality Learing Center", an allegedly fradulent Somali-American-run childcare center in Minneapolis, U.S., which closed in 2026.